Water cooler and filter



(No Model.)

WYITNESSES s. L. MGBRIDB. i

WATER COOLER AND FILTER.

Patented Nov. 28, 1882;.

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Arfv' UNITED STATES PATENT 'Erica SAMUEL L. MCBRIDE, OF ATLANTA,GEORGIA.

WATER COOLER AND FILTER.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 268,257, dated November28, 1882.

Application area May 3,1882. (No model.)

. and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription of the construction and operation ofthe same, referencebeing had tothe annexed drawings, making a lpart of this specification,and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a representation of a vertical sectionalview of my filter and Water-cooler. Fig. 2 is ahorizontal sectional viewof the same, and Fig'. 3 is a cross-sectional view.

This invention has relation to water-cooling devices as well as towater-ilters; and it consists in the construction and novel arrange-Vment of the Water-chamber, having vertical branches at each end of theice-chamber, and a horizontal portion under the ice-chambercommunicating with said vertical branches, the ice-chamber beingindependent of the water-chamber. The invention also consists in makingone of the upright branches of the water-chamber higher than the other,and providing a filtering-partition to act on the water as it passesfrom the receiving portion of the chamber to that part from which it isto be drawn for use; and the invention nally consists in providing,inconnection with the cooler or vessel, a reversible lter-containingcylinder or chute, all as hereinafter set forth.

Y In the accompanying drawings, the letter A designates the body of thevessel, which isof elongated form, flat from side to side, and at oneend is provided with a raised portion, bein gthe upper end ofone of thevertical branches of the Water-chamber.

B indicates the ice-compartment, which is placed between the verticalbranches (l and Gl of the water-chamber, and over theJ horizontalportion D of said Water-chamber. On each side of the ice-compartment isan air-space, a, between the side wall of the vessel and the wall ofsaid compartment. The ice-compartment B is providedwith a draw-ofiIcock, b, and the water-chamber with a faucet, c. A

cleaning-aperture, d, is arranged at one e'ndot` the horizontal portionof the water-chamber, and is closed by a plug or screw-cap, as indicatedat e. The vertical branches C and C are providedwith covers, E, and theintermediate ice-compartment with an independent cover, F, as shown inthe drawings.

When it is desired to provide a filter a stone filtering-partition, f,is arranged across either of the vertical branches ofthe Water-chamber.It is preferred, however, to make the longer vertical branch, C,detachable from the main vessel, providing it with shouldered or taper-It is designed in using this device to reverse the chute C from day today, so as to filter in opposite directions through the stone atdifferent times, thereby keeping the stone clean; or the filter-stonemay be arranged vertically across the horizontal portion of thewaterchamber; or it may be located at the lower end of the shorterbranch of the water-chamber,

and the water, poured in through the longer branch, allowed to iilterupward through said stone into the shorter branch.

Sometimes it may be preferable to use other ltering material instead ofstonein constructing the filtering partition.

Having described tl1isinvention,whatl claim, and desire to secure byLetters Patent, is

1. The water-cooler described, having vertical branches of thewater-chamber at each end ofthe ice-compartment,and a horizontal portionof the water-chamber below said compartment communicating with thevertical branches, and the air-spaces on each side ofthe ice-compartment, substantially as specified.

2. The water-cooler described, having verti cal branches G C of the`water-chamber, .of different heights, at each end ofY theice-compartment, and a horizontal portion, D, of said chamber below saidcompartment, substan tially as specified.

3. In a water-cooler having an independent The lter-stonef is t e :resemmiddle ieeeompartment,and a water-chamber In testimony that I claim theabove 1 have having vertical branches of different heights, hereuntosubscribed my name in the presence and a horizontal portion under saidice-cour of two Witnesses.

partment connecting said branches` a filtering- 5 partition, f,substantially as specified. SAMUEL L. MCBRIDE.

4. In a, water-cooler, the detachable and reversble cylinder or chute C,having' a lter- Witnesses: partition, f, and open ends g, similarlyshoul- WILLIAM E. SGRUGGS, dered, tapered, or nished to engage the seatAKBAR BABER.

1o of the main vessel, substantially as specified.

